Anecdotes

When living in Portland, she worked as a tastemaker for a local ad agency, during which time she suggested the name "Coke II" for a new beverage. Much later, Coca-Cola rewarded her idea with a check for $25,000, which Miranda says arrived in the mail as a complete surprise.

In prep school, Miranda corresponded with an imprisoned murderer. She wrote a play about her experience called "The Lifers" and, at age 16, she staged it at a local punk club.

She met husband Mike Mills in 2005 at a party after her film Moi, toi et tous les autres (2005) debuted at Utah's Sundance festival, which was the year his Age Difficile Obscur (2005) premiered there. Four years later, in the summer of 2009, they married at Mills' house in the hills of Nevada.

Says she has been strongly influenced by the work of directors Paul Thomas Anderson, Todd Solondz, David Gordon Green, Jane Campion, Andrea Arnold, and Spike Jonze.

She co-produced a seven-year Internet project called "Learning to Love You More" with cinematographer Harrell Fletcher, in which over 8,000 people responded to online assignments such as "Take a picture of your parents kissing". The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art recently acquired the work.

Her father Richard grew up in Manhattan, near Central Park, with the surname Towers. He later took the name Grossinger after he was told his birth father was a member of the family that owned the famous Catskills mountain resort of same name. Eventually, however, he learned his real birth father was someone else.

According to the writer/director, in high school Miranda and her best friend worked on a fanzine named "Snarla". The two main characters of the 'zine were Ida and July; Miranda was July. Miranda was also creating her first plays and she announced one as "A New Play by Miranda July", the first time she used the pseudonym. It stuck.

Filmmaker Magazine rated her #1 in their "25 New Faces of Indie Film". (2004)

She is a performance artist and published short story writer. Since becoming a filmmaker, her debut feature Moi, toi et tous les autres (2005) has won several film awards.

Daughter of Lindy Hough and Richard Grossinger, writers and publishers who founded North Atlantic Books.

Lived a very bohemian kind of life, growing up between ages seven and 14 in an Arts and Crafts-style house on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California.

Her short story collection, "No One Belongs Here More Than You", won Ireland's Cork City-Frank O'Connor award along with a 35,000-euro first prize. (2007)

Lives in L.A.'s Silver Lake neighborhood.

Dropped out of college and left California in her early 20s to live in Portland, Oregon, where she later released spoken word albums on the Kill Rock Stars label.

Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since 2016.

Mother of Hopper Mills (b. February 2012).

Sister-in-law of Katie Mills and Megan Kitchen.